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HOFFMANN, Franz - Neuer Deutscher Jugendfreund Zur Unterhaltung Und Belehrung Der Jugend

Title: Neuer Deutscher Jugendfreund Zur Unterhaltung Und Belehrung Der Jugend
Description: Leipzig, Verlag vonSchmidt & Spring, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with elaborate gilt, black, orange, light green, dark green and ivory lettering and pictorial stamping. iv, 572pp, (8pp ads). Color frontispiece, full-page plates (some in color), decorative endpapers. Very good. Quite minor binding wear only; inner hinges just a tad delicate. Undated but circa 1900 "Band 60" (Volume 60) of this long-running series, entirely in German, of "New German Childhood Friend for the Entertainment and Instruction of Youth," the first volume of which was published by German juvenile writer Hoffmann (1814-82) in 1846 and continued for many decades. A vast conglomeration of fiction and nonfiction writings by a wide range of authors. The ornate pictorial binding depicting a medieval-garbed trumpeter astride a medieval-garbed horse is magnificent. .

Keywords: Children's German Language

Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 49153

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